Tag Archive | "2018"

Classic 80’s rock veterans Vixen will release “Live Fire” via Rat Pak Records on July 6, 2018. Mixed by Michael Wagener, “Live Fire” features 12 live tracks and was recorded at Chicago’s legendary Arcada Theater during the group’s successful 2017 tour. In addition to the classic Vixen songs, the effort also includes a newly recorded studio version of “You Ought to Know By Now”, an all new studio acoustic version of their hit song “Edge of a Broken Heart” and a live version of a previously unreleased track called “Big Brother”.

Following their highly successful 2015 debut “Princess Of Pain”, German band Snakebite released in 2018 their second album under the title “Rise Of The Snake”. ‘Beyond the Rust’ is a powerfull ballad very much in the vein of 1980s Hair Metal ballads, yet has a crystal clear production and sounds really fresh!

Hailing from Italy, Tracy Grave unleash a brilliant video of the ballad ‘Piece Of Horizon’ from their studio album Sleazy Future, which was released via Volcano Records on March 23, 2018.

In their own words:

“Tracy Grave, Italian composer and songwriter, standard-bearer of hard rock, glam, sleaze and AOR, started his musical career in 2000 as a singer in some cover bands, with Hollywood Pornstars recording the homonym album in 2008, after which he works together with Lethal Poison, publishes two soloists EP “No Saint Without Sinners” and “Letal Saints“. We arrive at 2016, and Tracy publishes the acoustic EP “Faith“, which also collaborated Joey Zalla of the Jolly Rox, at the same time working on the album “In The Mirror Of Soul” from which the single “Rise Again” is extracted and a video is made.

In 2017, Tracy joins the guitarist, as well as composer, Mark Shovel, from this meeting, the Tracy Grave band is born. The bass player Viper, the rhythmic guitarist Enea and the drummer John Hurricane are soon added. 2018 sees Tracy release the new album “Sleazy Future” for Volcano Records, announced by the singles “Cemetery Sin” and “Dirty Rain”, the video clip “Over The Top” and the new “Piece Of Horizon”. In the same year, Valeria Campagnale becomes the manager of Tracy Grave, following him in the choices regarding artistic and career choices, sharing an overall strategy of promotion and development. Currently the band is engaged in the promotion of the new album “Sleazy Future” with interviews, radio passages for Italian and foreign radio, and a tour that started in March 2018.

‘Wrong Side Of The Tracks (Out in Beverly Hills)” from their studio album Lower The Bar

My mansion is the size of a city block
I got a statue of David but he’s missing his cock
I got my name monogrammed on the side of my jet
But I can’t afford a hangar to park the thing yet

Tell me how is a guy to live

On the wrong side of the tracks out in Beverly Hills
On the wrong side of the tracks out in Beverly Hills

I got a twenty year old wife and she’s eager to please
But she made me throw away my Dokken CD’s
I got surround sound running through the whole damn house
And some Dokken’s getting cranked
Just as soon as I figure the bluetooth out

Tell me how is a guy to live

On the wrong side of the tracks out in Beverly Hills
On the wrong side of the tracks out in Beverly Hills
On the wrong side of the tracks… out in Beverly Hills

And every night there’s Hollywood
Just beckoning from my neighborhood
Transvestites under street lights
Looking so tight, think I just might

I got a Filipino butler with a southern drawl
I can only sleep at night using Propofol
You can take a boy out of the trailer park, you see
But you never gonna get the trailer out of me, no

It’s the only way I live

On the wrong side of the tracks out in Beverly Hills
(On the wrong side of the tracks out in Beverly Hills)
On the wrong side of the tracks out in Beverly Hills
(On the wrong side of the tracks out in Beverly Hills)
On the wrong side of the tracks out in Beverly Hills
(On the wrong side of the tracks out in Beverly Hills)

Stryper featuring Michael Sweet (v & g), Robert Sweet (d), Oz Fox (g) and Perry Richardson (b) have released a first song entitled “Take It To The Cross” from their studio album God Damn Evil, released via Frontiers Music on April 23, 2018.

For the first ever, there are growl vocals on a Stryper album courtesy of Matt Bachand from Shadows Fall and Act Of Defiance.

Few German rock acts can look back at as long and successful a career as BONFIRE. Counting their predecessor – a group called Cacumen, which was also founded by Hans Ziller and featured more or less the same line-up – the band has been around since 1972, has operated under its current moniker since 1986 and released more than two dozen albums. During the most successful phase of their career, Bonfire counted – alongside the Scorpions and Accept – among Germany’s three internationally most acclaimed acts, celebrating major success all over Europe and worldwide. Bonfire’s trademarks are and have always been deeply melodic hard rock songs, driven by captivating guitars, grooving rhythms and haunting vocal melodies. All the features that came together so perfectly on their most popular releases Fireworks (1987), Point Blank (1989) and Branded (2011) are present on their current release Temple Of Lies.